“THERE are no voiceless people. THERE are no voiceless communities. THERE is simply an unwillingness to allow others to speak. THERE is simply an unwillingness to hear the pain and the critique of those who have been marginalized and silenced. In KEEPING with the best of WOMANIST PRACTICES, how can you be a megaphone for the disinherited?”
– Dr. Yolanda Price
“As Howard Thurman preaches in her right ear, as James Baldwin prophesies in her left, as Pauli Murray prays over her, and as Zora Neale Hurston prepares a path before her, Yolanda Pierce shapes a majestic theology of sound and crafts a masterly psychology of voice. The Wounds Are the Witness is where Teilhard de Chardin meets Beyoncé, as Pierce takes the world to church with sacred speech that transforms trauma, heals hurts, rejoices in justice, and celebrates spirit. In this brilliant book, we hear the testimony of arguably the greatest interpreter of religion for the thinking public in our present age.”
Dr. Pierce currently serves as Professor and Dean of the Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, TN. Her research specialties include Literature & Religion; Womanist Theology; and African American Religions. She is the author of In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith and the Stories We Inherit, Hell Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative, and The Wounds are the Witness: Black Faith Weaving Memory into Justice and Healing.
SCHOLAR WRITER WOMANIST THEOLOGIAN
Dr. Yolanda Pierce
